Tried to fix one line of code and broke the whole login page for 3 hours

I was working on my first real project for class - a simple to-do list app. I just wanted to change the color of a button, so I opened the CSS file and tweaked one line. Next thing I know, the login page shows a big white screen with nothing on it. I spent 3 hours deleting and undoing changes one by one until I realized I accidentally deleted a closing bracket. Has anyone else spent way too long fixing a tiny typo that messed everything up?

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clark.faith3d ago

Spent 4 hours once tracking down a missing semicolon in JavaScript that crashed an entire checkout page. Turned out to be right where my cat walked across the keyboard and deleted it while I was getting coffee. I now triple check every bracket, comma, and semicolon like a paranoid lunatic.

faithf773d agoTop Commenter

Honestly, your cat probably knew exactly what it was doing.